Quote Originally Posted by McCormack
I've got a Canon A-1 that I love, and every now and then I have a need to post pictures to the internet. I post pictures so seldom that it doesn't really pay for me to buy a digital camera, but I've been told that I can have my 35mm negatives scanned and burned to CD, which I then can throw into my computer and post to the web. Does anyone have any tips for me to get the best possible image quality from 35mm negatives? Would slide film give me better quality images than print film would?
McCormack,,,the only advice I can give you is find a good lab,get to know the owner/opertator and have a long heart to heart with him/her...Most labs will convert film to digital and burn your images to CD...The $64,000 question is at what resolution..If I were getting my film scanned I'd go want 30 cm at the longest dimension @ 300dpi...That will give you an image size of around 24megs when opened in Photoshop..

IMHO print films give slightly better quality than slide film for the one reason that print film has a tad more exposure latitude than slide film...You have more chance of gaining that "perfect" exposure using neg film than slide film,,its all in the picture taking not the scanning..Makes sense??

Jurgen
Australia